- Frank Press was born on December 4, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Frank is known for Space Age (1992). Frank was married to Billie Kallick. Frank died on January 29, 2020 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
- SpouseBillie Kallick(? - February 12, 2009) (her death, 2 children)
- He was among the scientists who argued, correctly, that Antarctica is a continent and not a massive piece of ice. In his honor, a mountain in Antarctica is named Mount Press.
- His parents were Jewish immigrants from what is now Belarus. He grew up reading Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines and searching junkyards for scrap materials for his mechanical experiments.
- He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the City College of New York and a PhD in geophysics from Columbia University.
- He was a geophysicist and seismologist who was influential in US national scientific policy in the late Cold War era as science adviser to President Carter and chief of the National Academy of Sciences.
- He led the seismological laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, where his work was credited with expanding understanding of the makeup of the earth's interior. He subsequently went to MIT where he became chairman of the geology and geophysics department. During the Apollo missions, he helped to design the seismographic equipment taken to the moon.
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